If someone asked you whether our world today is good or evil, what would you
answer? Without a doubt, you would answer that it is evil. But it is not just
the world of this age that is evil; we cannot help but say that all the ages of
the past and all the nations and the world were evil.
Therefore, our world has
been one in which sin continues to grow more than good deeds, war more than
peace, immorality more than righteousness, hatred more than love, and division
and discord more than unification and harmony.
No one wants this kind of evil world. Therefore, we cannot help but
investigate how we can establish an ideal world of true love overflowing with
peace, freedom and happiness and clear up this world of evil. What all
individuals and leaders of the family, tribe, race, nation and world desire as
well must be the establishment of a world overflowing with freedom and
happiness. Since the beginning of human history, for thousands of years,
humanity has been struggling toward this kind of ideal and dream, but we have
not yet established the ideal world we desire.
Today, I would like to reveal to you the fundamental cause of these problems.
In addition, I intend to present the solution which will make it possible to
realize the ideal world which people have desired so much. This is not content
which comes from human speculation or wisdom. As you already know, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, whose teachings are the basis for this blog, has devoted his entire life to solving these
problems. Thousands have been moved
and inspired beyond words by his teachings and by his life of love for God and
humanity.
Be Fruitful, Multiply and Fill the Earth
If a wife, as she
lives supporting her husband, gains deep insights into the truth and is
continuously moved and inspired by his life and character, this is an occurrence
which should be revealed to the world.
Why? Because the fundamental reason for
this world becoming an evil world where sexual license, criminal activity,
conflicts and corruption are rampant is the breakdown and disharmony in the
basic relationship between husband, wife and children.
At present, over seven billion people are living on the earth, but if we look
at it in another way, only two people are living here. We could say that a man
and a woman, a husband and a wife, only two people, are living here.
Countless
numbers of people are living together and there are all kinds of relationships
and problems, but at the core of all of those problems are the problems and
relationships between two people, a man and a woman. When we look at things in
this light, it becomes important for us to investigate the way of heaven that
man and woman were to go when God created the first ancestors.
In Genesis, it is recorded that after God had created the heavens and the
earth, He created the ancestors of humankind: a man, Adam, and a woman, Eve. At
the same time that He spoke about the three great blessings, He gave them a
portion of responsibility.
The three great blessings were: "Be fruitful and
multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the
sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing...." But to the man
and woman He also gave the responsibility: ". . . but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat. . ."
This teaches us the purpose for which God created the universe and humanity,
and also shows us the basis for life. The blessing to be fruitful means that all
people born on the earth must grow to be people of perfected character.
The
second blessing of life, to multiply, means that, as a man and a woman with a
perfected character, they must establish the bond of husband and wife, give
birth to children, and raise them. God's purpose of creation is, as a husband
and wife fulfilling their duty as father and mother leading a family, they
should construct a far more comfortable, prosperous world and establish the
Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
This purpose of creation was to be realized if the first ancestors had obeyed
God's commandment, ". . . but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you
shall not eat...." But before the first ancestors, Adam and Eve, were perfect,
while they were still immature, they did not keep God's commandment; because of
Lucifer, they fell, and all humanity became the recipients of an evil blood
lineage.
Due to the Immoral Fall of the Original Human Ancestors,
Humankind Has Lost the Purpose of Creation
Ladies! What is the fruit of the
tree of knowledge of good and evil that God told the original ancestors, Adam
and Eve, not to eat? It is not the real fruit of a tree. It is a way of
expressing the husband and wife love relationship that the first ancestors were
to have in the future.
Due to the temptation of a third being, while still in an
imperfect state, the first man and woman entered into an immoral sexual
relationship. Actually, in the Garden of Eden, the third party besides Adam and
Eve was the archangel. In the Bible. it is revealed that Lucifer was the
archangel who tempted Eve and committed an immoral sexual sin. This was the fall
of man, the original sin which planted the root of sin in the world.
Man committed the sexual sin before his Father God, the Lord and Master of
heaven and earth, and the first ancestors had children out of this immoral love;
and the world of evil was realized. In other words, they married centered on
Satan and by planting false love, false life and a false lineage they became
ancestors of evil.
As human society expanded from the individual, family, tribe, race, and
nation to the world level, due to this immoral relationship between man and
woman, the root of the evil blood lineage was established everywhere, and this world became hell on earth: it became a false world filled with
sin, war and fear. The fallen ancestors, Adam and Eve, should have established
the position of True Parents as the eternal good ancestors of humanity, but they
fell to become false parents leaving a blood lineage of evil.
This is the first cause of all the tragedy and misery of humankind. What
could be more tragic or cause greater indignation than becoming the descendants
of false parents and all humankind losing their True Parents?
And how great must
be the suffering and sorrow of God, the Father of humanity, whose purpose of
creation, to establish the true ancestors of humankind and to multiply people of
goodness, was stolen by the blood lineage of sin through the immoral fall of the
first human ancestors.
Just as the cause of a disease must be discovered and treated in order to
save a person suffering from it, in order to liberate human society from the
suffering of such sin and misery, the fundamental cause of this sin and misery
must be revealed and corrected.
The fundamental cause is the fall of the human
ancestors, the original sin. Accordingly, unless the cause of the disease called
original sin is eliminated, we cannot pull up the root of misery and sin from
the world. No matter how many great men, heroes, scholars, politicians or
philosophers appear and try to straighten out the world through the reform of
the laws and systems or through the education of moral principles, unless the
original sin and the content of the fall is clarified, it will be impossible.
All remedies will prove useless. That is because the original root of sin and
misery is still alive, and it will continue to sprout buds.
The Role of Religion:
The Salvation of Humankind from
Evil
Religion teaches the fact that man fell, it reveals the contents of the
fall, and directly and indirectly shows God's providence through which He seeks
to save man completely from sin. Therefore all religions are the most active
prescriptions for saving the sinful world.
Religion is the foundation of all
education or teachings. The teachings of the four great saints Confucius,
Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad and the teachings of the founders of other religions
transcended their ages and locations and have preserved the conscience and
morals of humanity, and have been the generative powers of cultural development.
Accordingly, all religions seeking to liquidate the world of evil and to
establish the ideal world which God and people desire are co-workers and
collaborators.
Among them, the scriptures through which God most directly revealed His
providence of salvation is the Bible. Through the Bible we can know that the
ancestors of humanity, Adam and Eve, committed the original sin and became false
parents, and that God's work in the providence of salvation is to restore the
lost purpose of creation.
The main point of the message of the Bible is that in
order to give rebirth to all, the Messiah or the True Parents must come in place
of Adam and Eve who became false parents.
Adam should have become the true
father, and Eve should have become the true mother; that was the purpose of the
original creation. In order to restore the purpose of creation back to its
original state, God cannot help but carry out the providence for the recreation
of Adam.
That is the main point of the providence of preparing the chosen nation of
Israel and having Jesus born there. From the time Adam and Eve fell and humanity
multiplied with its blood lineage centered on Satan, God immediately began
working to separate the blood lineages of goodness and evil.
From Adam's family,
God separated the second son, Abel, who was in a position to relate to God, and
the first son, Cain, was in a position to relate to Satan. He sought to restore
the order of the creation to its original state by having Cain yield to Abel of
his own accord. Through Cain's murder of Abel, the history of struggle to
separate good and evil was extended for a long time.
When we look at the bible in this context, from God's viewpoint of history, we see that His process of restoration had many setbacks that lead us to the Last Days where the Messiah has become the true father and reverses the mistake of the false father, Adam.
In these Last Days, evil society will thus separate from the dominion of Satan as it follows God's commandments leaving no base for evil to have a partner in which to work through. This will be the beginning of a new era of hope where all humanity will begin to flow and follow God as the true ruler of this world.
Return to continue this post tomorrow:
Jesus' True Mission
Textbook For World Peace, Chapter 5 "The Central Role of Women in the Ideal World" was taken from the wife of Dr. Moon, Hak Ja Han Moon who gave this speech in July 1992 to the Women's Federation for World Peace Rally in Seoul, Korea.
